Newport Folk Festival: Best of the Blues 1959-68

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Annotation

Recorded live at Newport Folk Festival, 1959-68.

Annotation last modified on 2014-10-07 05:03 UTC.

Tracklist

1▶CD: Delta Blues
2▶CD: Country Blues
3▼CD: Urban Blues
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1The Woman I'm Loving, She's Taken My Appetite
Lightnin’ Hopkins3:08
2Baby Please Don't Go
live recording of:
Baby, Please Don’t Go
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
publisher:
EMI Full Keel Music, Leeds Music Corp., MCA Music (not for release label use! this is a music publisher, ASCAP-affiliated), MCA Music Ltd. and Universal/MCA Music Ltd. (not for release label use!)
version of:
Another Man Done Gone
Lightnin’ Hopkins2:47
3Shake That Thing
live recording of:
Shake That Thing
lyricist and composer:
Charlie Jackson
publisher:
Paul Rodriguez Holdings
Lightnin’ Hopkins1:44
4Tupelo
live recording of:
Tupelo
lyricist and composer:
John Lee Hooker (US blues singer, songwriter & guitarist)
John Lee Hooker3:15
5Bus Station Blues
John Lee Hooker3:17
6Let's Make It
live recording of:
Let’s Make It
lyricist and composer:
John Lee Hooker (US blues singer, songwriter & guitarist)
publisher:
Conrad Music (publisher; do NOT use as release label)
John Lee Hooker2:41
7Great Fire of Natchez
John Lee Hooker4:58
8Boom Boom
live recording of:
Boom Boom
lyricist and composer:
John Lee Hooker (US blues singer, songwriter & guitarist)
publisher:
Conrad Publishing Co. Inc. and Tristan Music Ltd.
John Lee Hooker3:01
9I Can't Quit You Baby / Stop Now Baby
live cover recording of:
I Can’t Quit You Baby
lyricist and composer:
Willie Dixon
publisher:
Conrad Music (publisher; do NOT use as release label) and Hoochie Coochie Music
live cover recording of:
Stop Now Baby
lyricist and composer:
Sonny Boy Williamson (Aleck “Sonny Boy Williamson” Miller, 1912–1965)
John Lee Hooker2:34
10How Long
Memphis Slim3:25
11Black Cat Crossed My Path
Memphis Slim2:48
12Harlem Bound
Memphis Slim1:39
13"Piano Instrumental"
Memphis Slim2:13
14Blow Wind Blow
live recording of:
Blow Wind Blow
lyricist and composer:
McKinley Morganfield (blues musician)
publisher:
Arc Music Corp. (U.S. rock & blues publisher), Bug Music, Inc. and Watertoons Music
Muddy Waters & Otis Spann3:11
15Flood
live recording of:
Flood
writer:
Muddy Waters (blues musician)
Muddy Waters & Otis Spann4:51
16See See Rider
live recording of:
See See Rider Blues
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 10056)
The Chambers Brothers3:24
17Blues With a Feeling
live recording of:
Blues With a Feeling (Little Walter version)
lyricist and composer:
Jacobs (blues performer and songwriter)
is based on:
Blues With a Feeling (original Rabon Tarrant / Jack McVea version)
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band3:58
18Born in Chicago
live recording of:
Born in Chicago
lyricist and composer:
Nick Gravenites (singer, guitarist and songwriter)
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band4:06

Credits

Release

design/illustration:Meredith Steele
photography:Ray Flerlage (photographer)
David Gahr (photographer)
liner notes:John Milward
engineer:Jeff Zaraya
producer:Tom Vickers
Discogs:https://www.discogs.com/release/2536922 [info]
ASIN:US: B00005AKJG [info]